[erlang-questions] How to extract string between XML tags

[Lloyd R. Prentice]

Thanks, Eric!

Best wishes,

Lloyd

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> On Sep 29, 2018, at 5:13 AM, PAILLEAU Eric <eric.pailleau@REDACTED> wrote:
> 
> hello,
> sorry did not see this question before.
> 
> A simple regexp is possible "<\/?[^>]{1,}>"
> 
> re:replace("<th>title <b>bold</b></th>","<\/?[^>]{1,}>","", [global, {return, list}]).
> "title bold"
> 
> 
> 
>> Le 25/09/2018 à 23:56, lloyd@REDACTED a écrit :
>> Hello,
>> By now I should know how to do this. But I've fumbled for more time than I have to find an elegant solution.
>> Can anyone show a better way?
>> Example string: "<th>Firstname</th>"  % NOTE: could be any valid tag
>> My kludge:
>> extract_text(TaggedText) ->
>>   Split = re:split(TaggedText, "<"),
>>   Split2 = lists:nth(2, Split),
>>   Split3 = binary_to_list(Split2),
>>   Split4 = re:split(Split3, ">"),
>>   Split5 = lists:nth(2, Split4),
>>   binary_to_list(Split5).
>> Surely there's a better way.
>> Many thanks,
>> LRP
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